Wish List for Time Capsule

Ok - its not working well at moment.
Lots of people are having problems - part of the fun of trying new stuff - it will hopefully get better though mobileme runs the risk of not being all its made out to be
I do like - the dual bands, the guest wireless etc and in the excitement of trying to get these all working i've forgotten why i didnt buy the old time capsule and wonder why i bought the new one when what i really wanted was:
1. centralised always on iTunes Server for my network with UPnP connection as well so i can use an old netgear player i got off ebay
2. a wake on lan function so that i didnt need to leave my mac on all the time and could sleep it - i could then connect to my TC and wake my mac (hopefully mobileme would do all this automatically for me perhaps without even waking the screen)
3. remote FTP access
4. personal webserver
5. access to the files on my TC from the web version of mobileme and from my iphone a la mobile files app
6 possibly some sort of integration with an apple tv (may do this already havent looked into)
Strangely a lot of this appears possible from a drobo or a linksys media hub etc
will firmware upgrades enable TC to do these????
Feel free to comment or add wishes

anybody thought about nr 3 vs. mobile me
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